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April 23, 2024

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An Ink for 3D-Printing Flexible Devices Without Mechanical Joints

Apr. 18, 2024 — Researchers are targeting the next generation of soft actuators and robots with an elastomer-based ink for 3D printing objects with locally changing mechanical properties, eliminating the need for cumbersome mechanical ...

New 3D-Printing Method Makes Printing Objects More Affordable and Eco-Friendly

Apr. 10, 2024 — A team of scientists has unveiled a method for 3D printing that allows manufacturers to create custom-made objects more economically and ...

This 3D Printer Can Figure out How to Print With an Unknown Material

Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers developed a 3D printer that can automatically determine the printing parameters of an unknown material. This could help engineers use emerging renewable or recycled materials that have fluctuating properties, which makes them difficult ...

Researchers 3D Print Key Components for a Point-of-Care Mass Spectrometer

Apr. 4, 2024 — Researchers 3D printed a miniature ionizer, a key component of a mass spectrometer. Their device could someday enable an affordable, in-home mass spectrometer for health ...

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High-Resolution Brain Created With 3D Printer

Mar. 21, 2024 — A 3D-printed 'brain phantom' has been developed, which is modeled on the structure of brain fibers and can be imaged using a special variant of magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). The scientific team ...

New High-Speed Microscale 3D Printing Technique

Mar. 13, 2024 — A new process for microscale 3D printing creates particles of nearly any shape for applications in medicine, manufacturing, research and more -- at the pace of up to 1 million particles a ...

3D-Printed Skin Closes Wounds and Contains Hair Follicle Precursors

Mar. 4, 2024 — Fat tissue holds the key to 3D printing layered living skin and potentially hair follicles, according to researchers who recently harnessed fat cells and supporting structures from clinically ...

3D Ice Printing Can Create Artificial Blood Vessels in Engineered Tissue

Feb. 12, 2024 — A new 3D printing method uses ice to build a template for artificial blood vessels in engineered tissue. Researchers hope the vessels could eventually be used in artificial organ transplants or drug ...

3D Printed Nanocellulose Upscaled for Green Architectural Applications

Feb. 7, 2024 — For the first time, a hydrogel material made of nanocellulose and algae has been tested as an alternative, greener architectural material. The study shows how the abundant sustainable material can be ...

Researchers 3D-Print Functional Human Brain Tissue

Feb. 1, 2024 — It's an achievement with important implications for scientists studying the brain and working on treatments for a broad range of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Alzheimer's and ...

New Model Predicts How Shoe Properties Affect a Runner's Performance

Jan. 24, 2024 — A new model predicts how shoe properties will affect a runner's performance. The model could be a tool for designers looking to push the boundaries of sneaker ...

Researchers Create Faster and Cheaper Way to Print Tiny Metal Structures With Light

Jan. 18, 2024 — Researchers have developed a light-based means of printing nano-sized metal structures that is 480 times faster and 35 times cheaper than the current ...

Perfecting 3D-Printed Blood Vessels With Pores

Jan. 17, 2024 — Due to the substantial clinical demand for artificial small-diameter vessels (SDVs), numerous commercial products have emerged. However, the majority of existing artificial SDVs lack an endothelial ...

Researchers Create Stable Hybrid Laser by 3D Printing Micro-Optics Onto Fibers

Dec. 13, 2023 — For the first time, researchers have shown that 3D-printed polymer-based micro-optics can withstand the heat and power levels that occur inside a ...

Scientists 3D Print Self-Heating Microfluidic Devices

Dec. 11, 2023 — A fabrication process can produce self-heating microfluidic devices in one step using a multimaterial 3D printer. These devices, which can be made rapidly and cheaply in large numbers, could help ...

Soundwaves Harden 3D-Printed Treatments in Deep Tissues

Dec. 7, 2023 — Engineers have developed a bio-compatible ink that solidifies into different 3D shapes and structures by absorbing ultrasound waves. Because the material responds to sound waves rather than light, ...

Printed Robots With Bones, Ligaments, and Tendons

Nov. 15, 2023 — For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique. The new technology makes ...

This 3D Printer Can Watch Itself Fabricate Objects

Nov. 15, 2023 — Engineers have developed a high-throughput, multimaterial 3D inkjet printer that uses computer vision to rapidly and automatically control the amount of material being deposited during the printing ...

Reverse Engineering Jackson Pollock

Oct. 31, 2023 — Researchers combined physics and machine learning to develop a new 3D-printing technique that can quickly create complex physical patterns -- including replicating a segment of a Pollock painting -- ...

To Advance Space Colonization, New Research Explores 3D Printing in Microgravity

Oct. 30, 2023 — Research into how 3D printing works in a weightless environment aims to support long-term exploration and habitation on spaceships, the moon or ...

Using Lasers to 'Heat and Beat' 3D-Printed Steel Could Help Reduce Costs

Oct. 30, 2023 — Researchers have developed a new method for 3D printing metal that could help reduce costs and make more efficient use of ...

3D Printed Reactor Core Makes Solar Fuel Production More Efficient

Oct. 27, 2023 — Using a new 3D printing technique, researchers have developed special ceramic structures for a solar reactor. Initial experimental testing show that these structures can boost the production yield of ...

Inspection Method Increases Confidence in Laser Powder Bed Fusion 3D Printing

Oct. 26, 2023 — Researchers have improved flaw detection to increase confidence in metal parts that are 3D-printed using laser powder bed ...

Cell-Friendly Bioprinting at High Fidelity Enhances Its Medical Applicability

Oct. 16, 2023 — Researchers have developed a cell-friendly means of bioprinting at high fidelity. By successive injection of a cell-based ink and a printing support, the ink solidified into defined geometries, even ...

Next-Generation Printing: Precise and Direct, Using Optical Vortices

Oct. 2, 2023 — Researchers have succeeded in printing uniformly sized droplets with a diameter of approximately 100 µm using a liquid film of fluorescent ink. This ink, with a viscosity roughly 100 times that of ...

3D-Printed Plasmonic Plastic Enables Large-Scale Optical Sensor Production

Sep. 28, 2023 — Researchers have developed plasmonic plastic -- a type of composite material with unique optical properties that can be 3D-printed. This research has now resulted in 3D-printed optical hydrogen ...

3D Printing With Coffee: Turning Used Grounds Into Caffeinated Creations

Sep. 11, 2023 — Coffee could be the key to reducing 3D printing waste, according to a new study. Researchers have developed a method for 3D printing using a paste made out of old coffee ...

Tattoo Technique Transfers Gold Nanopatterns Onto Live Cells

Aug. 10, 2023 — For now, cyborgs exist only in fiction, but the concept is becoming more plausible as science progresses. And now, researchers are reporting that they have developed a proof-of-concept technique to ...

Technology Advance Could Expand the Reach of 3D Nanoprinting

Aug. 9, 2023 — Researchers have developed an easy-to-build, low-cost 3D nanoprinting system that can create arbitrary 3D structures with extremely fine features. The new 3D nanoprinting technique is precise enough ...

This 3D Printed Gripper Doesn't Need Electronics to Function

July 27, 2023 — This soft robotic gripper is not only 3D printed in one print, it also doesn't need any electronics to ...

All About the Benjamins: Researchers Decipher the Secrets of Benjamin Franklin's Paper Money

July 17, 2023 — During his career, Benjamin Franklin printed nearly 2,500,000 money notes for the American Colonies using what the researchers have identified as highly original ...

Researchers Develop Approach That Can Enable Inexpensive Mass Manufacturing of Micro-LED Displays

July 13, 2023 — New research describes a continuous roller printing approach that can precisely transfer thousands of microscopic semiconductor devices in a single shot. This method paves the way to creating ...

Organic Electronics: Sustainability During the Entire Lifecycle

July 7, 2023 — Organic electronics can make a decisive contribution to decarbonization and, at the same time, help to cut the consumption of rare and valuable raw materials. To do so, it is not only necessary to ...

Sweat It Out: Novel Wearable Biosensor for Monitoring Sweat Electrolytes for Use in Healthcare and Sports

July 6, 2023 — Wearable sensors are becoming a promising tool in personalized healthcare and exercise monitoring. In a recent study, researchers develop a novel wearable chemical sensor capable of measuring the ...